Scientific novelty of work is in revealing the key aspects of understanding the nature and characteristics of contemporary processes of communication at various levels of socially organized matter, in identifying their most significant features in conditions of the actual information society. The article expresses the view that in modern society, reality is manifested in the form of “normal accidens”, and in this context some of the most illustrative trends of modern social development, that are manifested in various aspects of human activity are highlighted that are the “normal accidents”. It is substantiated that modern network communications are characterized by non-linearity, absence of a core and hierarchy, which affects the dynamics of society. Conclusions. New forms of communication are multidirectional and ambiguous: on the one hand, they are a continuation and a new measurement of the traditionally established forms of public communication and, on the other hand, they are socio-cultural innovations capable of a new influence on the quality of life of an individual, functionality and dynamics of society and its institutions development.

It is argued that the process of informatization of society should include at least three complementary elements: mediatization as a process of improving the means of working with information, computerization as a process of improving the means of information processing and intellectualization as a process of improving human knowledge and abilities to generate and perceive information. The ambiguity of the social consequences of informatization is proven. It is argued that informatization in itself is not a guarantee of success and social progress, it must be organically integrated into the overall system of social activities.

The authors ascertain the correlation between the freedom of information use and both the freedom of speech and the right to information. There was applied the entire toolbox of interrelated and complementary universal scientific and specific methods inherent to philosophic research. The research methodology rests on the system and structure-functional analysis principles. The notions of information, freedom, justice and law are closely interlinked. When exercising freedom one inevitably makes his or her choice from among the available actions while relying on the previously obtained information. The human information rights that are, in their turn, a part of the overall notion of the law enjoy an exceptional role within the freedom of information. Far from being exhausted by the freedom of speech and the right to information, the freedom of information also includes various other aspects. It concerns the entire information and communication sphere at large. The freedom of information is not reduced to any certain type of socially-oriented information. The notion of the right to information goes beyond the right to access information while both of them take on the same social roles and are often terminologically interchangeable. SažetakAutori utvrđuju povezanost između slobode korištenja informacija i slobode govora i prava na informiranje. Primijenjen je alat za međusobno povezane i komplementarne univerzalne znanstvene i specifične metode svojstvene filozofskom istraživanju. Metodologija istraživanja počiva na načelima sustava i strukturalnofunkcionalne analize. Pojmovi informiranja, slobode, pravde i zakona tijesno su međusobno povezani. Prilikom ostvarivanja slobode, neizbježan je izbor iz raspoloživih mjera, a oslanjajući se na prethodno dobivene informacije. Ljudska prava na informiranje koja su, zauzvrat, dio cjelokupnog pojma zakona, imaju iznimnu ulogu u slobodi informiranja. Daleko od iscrpljenosti slobodom govora i prava na informaciju, sloboda informiranja uključuje i razne druge aspekte. Radi se o cijeloj informacijskoj i komunikacijskoj sferi u cjelini. Sloboda informiranja se ne svodi na određenu vrstu društveno orijentiranih informacija. Pojam prava na informaciju nadilazi pravo na pristup informacijama, dok oboje imaju iste društvene uloge i često su terminološki međusobno zamjenjivi.

Critical thinking is an attribute of consciousness that can be manifested in all human activities where it is required, as a condition of possibility, in the use of critical reason and deliberation. Consequently, it is in the domains of politics that critical thinking is used more frequently, to discuss the scope and concrete significance of the discourses and practices that, from the exercise of public powers, are deployed on intelligent citizenship and with the minimum necessary of information for peer deliberation. The objective of this article is to deconstruct the most common contributions of critical thinking as a form of participation and political deliberation. Methodologically it is a research of documentary design developed in the coordinates of the philosophical essay, next to the Latin American philosopher and the revision of the most popular political theory. Among the main findings, the idea that critical thinking is not the exclusive patrimony of certain self-defined political and ideological tendencies as progressive in the region stands out. It is concluded that, this way of thinking is uncomfortable per se for all the paradigms that serve as the basis for the status quo, in politics and society.

El artículo está dedicado a los problemas de influencia mutua de la cultura jurídica de la población y los procesos de construcción del estado en la Ucrania moderna. Se confirma la idea de que el Estado democrático como institución que es la encarnación de la democracia presupone la presencia de una cultura jurídica activista en los temas de las relaciones públicas. Al mismo tiempo, la formación de la cultura jurídica y los procesos de construcción del estado se ven obstaculizados por la ineficiencia del sistema judicial y de aplicación de la ley, la corrupción de los funcionarios estatales, la falta de un sistema de educación jurídica para los jóvenes, las peculiaridades de La mentalidad y el pasado histórico de nuestra gente, etc.